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hey folks Robbie Pay Here Again with
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chrome unboxed and today we are going to
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take a look at three different
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Chromebooks abilities to cast tabs to
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the chomecast
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the reason I'm going to do this is a
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because I've gotten quite a few requests
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between the three and um also cuz I'm a
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little bit curious myself um as we all
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know the ability for the chomecast to
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actually cast a tab um relies heavily on
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on the processing power of the device
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casting that tab so whether it's coming
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from a Macbook or a Windows uh PC or a
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Chromebook uh the processor is tasked
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with actually U manipulating that data
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and sending it to the chomecast now with
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things like YouTube Hulu Netflix those
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types of things once you've started that
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um started that video and then cast that
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video from that particular uh web
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application uh the chomecast takes over
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and nothing is relying on the device
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itself but with casting a tab the that's
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a very different thing and so uh it's
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actually going to give us a good idea of
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the uh just the raw processing power
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between the three of these guys so I
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wanted to show you all three of these in
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this shot so that when we switch to the
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television you can just trust me that
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I'm telling you the truth that I'm
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actually using three different devices
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to cast up uh the same video and we'll
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see how all three of these guys fair in
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the video all right so we have our
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chomecast here and and I'm just going to
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kind of do these in order um the best
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performer I've found so far when casting
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anything uh is the HP Chromebook 14 I
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think that's due to the Haswell
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processor paired with the 4 gigs of RAM
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so like I said this is a relatively
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intense operation uh for Chromebook for
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any computer for that matter um I
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actually had an
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Asus um I can't remember the the Q200E
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there's an I last year's I3 processor
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pair paed with 4 gigs of RAM and that
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device uh could not um actually handle
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any kind of full motion video you could
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do uh 480p standard definition and it it
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did an okay job um but it still wasn't
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even watchable the the frames jumped
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around so much so what we're going to
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see um Chromebook 14 this is uh the
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Verge I'm just kind of using that as a
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um a template for all these we got some
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video
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and we have some pretty pretty hefty
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stuff so quick scroll here you see a
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little bit of artifacting there as it's
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kind of having to process the page but
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it quickly resolves and so browsing is
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definitely not a problem so if you're
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showing uh a presentation or something
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like that with one of these uh I mean
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people that are in the PowerPoint really
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want to have dual monitors and stuff
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this is probably not going to be for you
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uh but if you had something where you
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could set up um Google Slides or there's
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a couple other different web
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applications for uh PowerPoint
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presentations that you know those things
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would be just fine um as long as you
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were able to uh kind of manipulate the
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television when you turn it on and off
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and maybe create a blank slide to start
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that with so um we will start embedded
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video here real quick because if you
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were to do this Say on YouTube for
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instance as soon as I click play
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techology has captured the imagination
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of Our Generation as soon as I click
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play um it's actually going to kick over
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and begin
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um um streaming via the chomecast so the
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chomecast would take over um the stuff
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there so definitely not something we
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want to uh we're trying to do here I'm
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trying to cast the tab completely
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so so once it got loaded um video's nice
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and smooth that that slight pan that's
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going on right there we're not seeing
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any jitters
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pretty good uh pretty good here I do
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want to check my settings real
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quick yeah that's actually pushing at
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720p um that's pretty impressive um let
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me drop it down to 480 uh which is a
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whole lot less intensive on the
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processor
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um and I don't know if you can tell on
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the
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video going to refresh this page real
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quick and yeah I mean it's a noticeable
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like small text over there on the right
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um in this in that gray area over here
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where that's being highlighted uh it's
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Prett pretty tough to read at
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480p
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um so take it with a grain of salt we'll
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click this video
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again definitely plenty smooth at 40p
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and at that size and a small window it's
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no big deal uh but once we expand this
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guy out
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let it kind of catch up there
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um you see it's pretty
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grainy so I I don't see a whole lot of
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trade-off here as far as performance
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it's not like the 720 was was hurting um
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so one last thing let me flip this back
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over to 720 now there 720 and then 720
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High bit rate you get into the high bit
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rate yes you do run into some issues um
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anytime you stream High bit rate stuff
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over any network you're going to run
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into some issues so this is back to the
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720p Let's Go full screen with
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this and you see uh video looks actually
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really good um all these these painting
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shots and Tech videos are great for
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really really checking out frame rates
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cuz when things are moving really
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quickly it's hard to tell frame rates
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are dropping but when things are
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painting nice and smooth uh it's pretty
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easy to tell um whether or not you're
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jumping and as you see that kind of pan
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real slow it's real nice and
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smooth
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so pretty well done there um and we're
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going to come back through the other
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test I'm going to do is actually with a
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local file um for those of you who don't
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know you can simply from your uh from
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your file browser you can actually drag
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uh a video file right into um right into
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u a browser window and it'll just play
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uh Chrome can actually convert and play
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quite a few different video types so if
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you don't know if whether do or not the
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best thing to do is just drag that file
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into an empty Chrome window and see if
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it'll start playing it'll play music
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files and all kinds of things so um
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those things are worth are worth casting
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as well we'll do that kind of in round
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two um so we're going to take the HP off
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stop casting give him a break and then
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my next one I'm basically kind of moving
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down the line here so the next one is
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the Acer C720 uh if you haven't watched
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my full review uh check it out I have a
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full review with HP p14 and full review
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of the Acer C720 I've got I've got head
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to heads between the two of them um I've
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got a review of the C720 and the
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c720p um so just uh subscribe to the
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channel check out all the videos you can
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see kind of what my thoughts are on each
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one the c720p for those of you who
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haven't watched those yet U it it's it's
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I don't want to say downfall but the the
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step down from the
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hp14 is it the Acer c720p that I have in
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my possession and from what I understand
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I don't know that there's a 4 gig one
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out yet only has 2 gigs of RAM and that
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doesn't sound like a huge deal but it
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can be a big deal when it comes to
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heavier processing needs and as you'll
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see in the review if you take a look at
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that um you'll actually see some of the
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problems that it has when you get into
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opening multiple tabs and multiple
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things going on that are really kind of
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stealing away some of that memory and so
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we are going to cast this guy I'm going
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to make
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sure that go in
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there and and this one's also at 720p
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and so uh after jumping to 480p on the
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HP I I don't even see a point in doing
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it if one of these struggles we may drop
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it to 480 and just to check to see what
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it does so let's check scrolling
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smooth big
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scroll so yeah little artifacting but it
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catches up pretty quick so very similar
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to the HP uh which is not shocking same
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processor so let's start this
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video
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looking good
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um let's go and blow it up full
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screen it takes a second anytime you
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make pretty big changes like blowing
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something up full screen or something
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like that you're going to get some
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Jitters at the
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beginning cuz keep in mind we are
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actually we're streaming and pushing
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this at the same time so it's really
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pushing the processor quite a bit so we
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we'll kind of chill out and watch some
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of these frame
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rates frame rates look a bit lower I
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mean we're just a little
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bit and this is the second one in a row
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now I've had issues that where the
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voices aren't lining up the first time I
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stream cast it with the HP it worked but
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every other time I took it off and went
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back with the HP it was doing the same
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thing a slight alteration in the U the
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the sound on the screen matching uh but
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overall the video
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quality looks pretty good I mean I'm not
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really I'm not complaining of
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anything as I said you got to consider
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we're streaming video here so the
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processor is dealing with a streamed
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video and dealing with getting it going
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and then turning around having to
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reprocess that and push it to the
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chomecast
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so you're really talking about some
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serious stuff going on um so kudos to
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the Haswell
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processor pretty good pretty well done
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there
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um so we'll give
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the go and give the Acer a
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rest hey and last but not least this may
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not be a shop at all um I want everyone
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to keep in mind again if you haven't
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watched reviews if you haven't checked
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out what's going on uh basically the um
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the internals of the Samsung Chromebook
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that is still I think the number one
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selling Chromebook uh online right now
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um and the hp11 the internals are the
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exact same now the hp11 really stepped
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up the bar and build quality on the
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outside but literally change nothing
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about the inside so what you're looking
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at is the 5250 exos processor by Samsung
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has a dual core chipset uh I want to say
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a a22 cortex I think I'm unsure I don't
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have that data right in front of me um
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but it it was a fast chip set same thing
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that's in the Nexus 10 um as well and so
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that paired with 2 gigs of RAM 16 gig
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solid state internal drive same exact
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stuff on hp11 so even though you may not
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be looking at the Samsung Chromebook
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right now you might be looking at hp11
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so the the performance you see in this
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particular test will be the exact same
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literally uh the exact same as what you
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would see on the uh Chromebook 11 from
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HP
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so we'll do the same thing we're going
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to cast this tab same page and
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unfortunately I'm going to cast the same
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video so you're going hear that guy talk
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about the same stuff again I apologize
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for
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that and you can tell it's even taking
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it a little bit longer to kind of get uh
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get the cast
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going
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if it's going to go at
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all there we
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go all right so we'll do a small
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scroll and
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scroll definitely tell a bit the the
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frame rates are not near what they are
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with the Haswell processor um shouldn't
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be surprising to anybody who's used uh
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the arm
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Chromebook and let me check to make sure
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we're pushing
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720p um the extension will give you a
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warning okay this is pushing the 480p so
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I'm going to go and let it let it do its
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thing here um at 480p first and then
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we'll kick it up to 720 in the
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second and you see right now even at
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480p it's
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struggling um and again as I said before
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you're asking a lot of a processor to do
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this um and this is kind of what I
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expected the ad's going to drop out and
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I'm getting the warning now on
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my featurel economy um that I don't need
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to be doing this basically
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and so um you'll see that a lot now
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technically C tab casting is in beta and
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they're also working on being able to
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cast your desktop as well and so I'm
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sure all these things are going to come
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down the line if you haven't used it yet
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there's a a device or a an app for
14:45
Android called Avia
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Avia allows you to uh and I think Plex
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will do the same thing Plex has a
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monthly fee like three bucks or
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something but both of those apps will
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allow you to have local content on your
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device and stream them to uh straight to
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the chomecast and I got to say as long
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as it's not a super high bit rate file
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I've watched some full length movies
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using uh Ava or AA or however you
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pronounce it from my Nexus 7 and it has
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been phenomenal so the chomecast
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definitely has the ability to accept
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local content and stream it at at at
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really high quality so it really is a
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matter of whether the device itself has
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the processing uh Power to do it and
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honestly the Nexus 7 uh you know has
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good eternals but you know it's an S4
15:28
Pro Pro which is kind of like the the
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Snapdragon 600 U which is no slouch by
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any by any stretch of the imagination
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but it's not the most powerful processor
15:37
in the world and it it just uh knocks it
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out whenever you stream video over that
15:43
device um all right we're going to take
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uh a quick break uh I'm going to come
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right back and we're actually going to
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use the uh devices to to cast a local
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file from the Chromebook so that's going
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to take a little load off the processors
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on each one we'll see what kind of
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quality we can get out of those okay
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guys I'm back I had to download a a file
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to show you I do want to show you really
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quickly how to go about playing back
16:06
local media so I'm just going to slide
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this in front of here so I don't have to
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move my camera so you can see I've got a
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chrome window up and I've got um just
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the file browser all you have to do is
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grab the file drag it into the Chrome
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window and drop it okay so I wanted to
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show you that I'm going to pause this
16:22
real quick and we're going to cast it up
16:25
so this is actually a 720 excuse me uh
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this is a 720p video uh for the new the
16:32
trailer for The Jack Ryan agent movie
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um and so this is the Chromebooks
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ability to play
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720p High
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defish not full high def but high
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definition over the chomecast playing
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local localized content so now the the
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device isn't happen to deal with um
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actually streaming the video it's
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playing it straight from its Drive so we
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will watch this and see how it
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goes this quarterback kind a
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situation somebody's trying to kill
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[Music]
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me work okay uh
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yeah you know you sold this as an office
17:35
job why don't you sit down now talk me
17:38
through your very scary
17:40
scenario keep in mind I don't have your
17:44
PhD Tokyo London the United States it's
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going to be a wide battle we'll never
17:50
see it coming you're not just an an
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anymore they're operational
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now ja I have to go to Moscow why don't
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you want me to come because I be working
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the whole
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time okay
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so that one did okay um honestly some of
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the streaming stuff we were doing looked
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a little better earlier to be completely
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honest with you um and again I'm I'm at
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a place with a public uh it's a really
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good router but I am a couple rooms away
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from that router so that can that can
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tend to have a little problem uh
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especially when you're doing this stuff
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too if you're home you probably want to
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be near your router when you're doing
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this kind of stuff if you're going to be
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casting video in this way so this next
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one
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is this one is from the Acer
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[Music]
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c720p oh wait sorry that's the that's
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the website excuse me a
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second and again I'm doing the same
18:57
thing here just dragging that file into
18:59
a Chrome browser window and letting it
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play get that cast
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[Music]
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in definitely sound is not lining up at
19:21
all here so we got stop casting
19:26
her and let me cast it first and then
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start play
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back okay now let's try
19:45
back jack work okay uh yeah yeah we're
19:50
getting some
19:51
pretty
19:54
poor audio alignment now talk me through
19:57
your very scary
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scenario keep in mind I don't have your
20:03
PhD Tokyo London United States it's
20:06
going to be a wide batt we'll never see
20:09
it coming you're not just an analist
20:11
anymore you're operational
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now I have to go to Moscow why don't you
20:19
want me to come because I be working the
20:20
whole time um frame R are okay here over
20:24
there just out of curiosity I'm going to
20:26
try something Americans like of your Sal
20:28
as direct perhaps you are
20:31
just um I found that usually it seems
20:35
like
20:36
um streaming stuff is good so I'm going
20:38
to go to the exact same side where that
20:40
came from so
20:49
see credit going to HD trailers. net
20:54
for supplying me with this
20:57
stuff so I'm actually going to stream it
20:59
right from them and uh see if we get a
21:06
different different result
21:15
here see how it
21:17
goes this back a
21:22
situation pretty crummy right now see if
21:25
it catches
21:27
up
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[Music]
21:37
jack work okay
21:40
uh yeah at least the audio is lining up
21:43
better you sold this as off
21:46
this and and I would assume different
21:49
files are going to work different ways
21:50
so um you know there's so many different
21:54
encryption types and there's different
21:55
ways to compile data when it comes to
21:57
video and so there's going to be certain
21:59
videos I've watched certain ones where
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I've cast them and it's just been
22:01
perfect I've watched ones where I
22:02
couldn't get the audio to line up or the
22:04
video jumped around I don't think that's
22:06
a change in the Chromebook itself but
22:08
Chrome's ability to deal with video I'm
22:11
sure you could probably go look on
22:12
Chrome some about pages and figure out
22:14
because this is actually turning out now
22:16
that it's kind of caught up looks good
22:17
frame rates are good audio is lined up
22:20
and so it's actually doing a better job
22:21
streaming and casting than it was doing
22:24
with local file so whatever the file was
22:26
and the type of file that downloaded
22:28
from this um apparently Chrome didn't
22:31
like it quite as much as it likes
22:33
probably this embedded Flash Player or
22:35
something similar too so uh keep those
22:37
things in mind I mean it's it's worth
22:39
trying U multiple Avenues uh before
22:43
giving up on casting a tab last but not
22:46
least we're going to go with the arm
22:48
Chromebook um and every time I pick up
22:50
this little Samsung um I do enjoy the
22:53
way uh Samsung went about making it's
22:55
very unique I'm looking very forward
22:57
forward um to the of rumored uh followup
23:01
to this device um for those of you who
23:04
have not heard supposedly uh it's going
23:06
to have the octacore big little
23:08
processor in it 3 gigs of RAM and then
23:11
basically the 136 or I'm sorry uh 1280 x
23:14
720 display just double those pixels so
23:16
uh what is that or 2560 by 1440 display
23:21
so we're talking a nice nice high
23:23
definition display they're talking in
23:25
the realm of 12 in 12 to 13in display
23:28
the octacore and 3 gigs of RAM so um I
23:31
would love to see an arm core I I root
23:33
for arm I really I I love mobile
23:35
processors um uh it's just been really
23:38
frustrating between this and the hp11 um
23:40
so I would love to see an RM core just
23:42
come in and just knock it out of the
23:44
park do everything really well have an
23:46
awesome display no fans crazy battery
23:48
life uh I'm really rooting for that
23:50
device uh we'll see we'll see if that
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pans out so let's do um we'll try both
23:56
of them on this guy as well real quick
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um and I'm going to the exact same site
24:07
again um we'll do the
24:10
same the same video as well so we're
24:13
keeping things at least a little
24:15
scientific
24:22
here and just for reference I am I am
24:24
streaming these at
24:26
720P
24:37
let's cast it don't have real high hopes
24:40
for how this is going to
24:44
go and keep in mind we're only doing
24:46
this at 480 on the Samsung which again
24:50
it's watchable it's not like it's
24:51
terrible you got to think of a regular
24:53
old DVD
24:56
um it's not even going let me look like
24:59
it's going to let me cast
25:02
it try one more time see if I get it to
25:13
go there we
25:17
go let's just see what
25:26
happens
25:28
kick me back
25:32
off
25:33
so
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yeah suppose the moral of the story is
25:38
if you're wanting to have the ability to
25:40
cast tabs via chomecast the arm
25:43
processing Chromebooks probably aren't
25:45
for you um I've not had any luck getting
25:48
it to happen at all pretty much with
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with that cuz um when I first got the
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chomecast I had not got my hands on a
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Haswell class uh Chromebook yet and so
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so um there was no luck with that I
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didn't actually have high hopes for the
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Haswell ones either um and they've
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really surprised me with their ability
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to to stream video they do a pretty good
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job as the Chrome the chomecast library
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of applications expands and expands and
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expands the need for this is going to be
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less and less and less um other than
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doing some sort of presentation but for
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right now it kind of can fill the gap
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for you as I said uh an Android device a
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tablet um with that Ava app um really
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fits the bill if if just streaming some
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movies and throwing some movies up on
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your television is kind of what you're
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wanting to get uh get done but the
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Chromebooks the hasel base Chromebooks
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can do that as we've seen um you're
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probably just going to have issues here
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and there again um so hopefully this
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will help some of you all make a
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decision um on on what Chromebook you're
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going to get or hold out for um
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hopefully it's been informative and uh
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